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DUNGEONS & DRAG QUEENS

Hear ye, hear ye! The hit off-Broadway comedy show sashays its way to Star Theater! Witness the high-fantasy, high-heeled, high-rolling hilarity as three drag queens play the legendary tabletop game of Dungeons and Dragons LIVE.

Dungeon Master comedian Paul Curry and improvisational musician Carson Cutter will lead our Queens through a brand new storytelling adventure, with danger, snark, and audience participation around every precarious corner. Experience the adventure, or fail your quest, at Dungeons and Drag Queens!

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Since stepping onto the musical stage with his first song “Skitzo” in 2019, Christian Gates’ career has been just that – unlike anything you’ve heard before. The genre- blending singer/songwriter and TikTok sensation is redefining what it means to be a pop star. The Orange County native is known for writing and performing emotional music that masterfully blends deep, raw lyricism with viral melodies that hook in listeners from the very first second. With his signature raspy vocals, honest delivery, and his hand firmly on the pulse

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Prepaid Friends Present

Silk Letdown with Chris Margolin & The Contraband, Don’t Tell John, and Purusa

Friday December 6, 2026 8:00pm (Doors: 7:00pm)

Star Theater

13 NW Sixth Avenue

Portland, OR

Ages 21 and up

$15

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Silk Letdown

Silk Letdown’s combination of high-energy riffs, infectious melodies, and funky grooves make them a must-hear for fans of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, and Incubus.  Combining elements of funk rock, grunge, and West Coast alternative, Silk Letdown teases moments of blues and jazz, ensuring their music appeals to both die-hard 90’s and 00’s rock enthusiasts and technical musicians alike!

Chris Margolin & The Contraband

Portland's Chris Margolin & The Contraband blend whiskey-soaked rock with the grit of alt-country. With influences ranging from Manchester Orchestra and Jason Isbell to Counting Crows and the Rolling Stones, the band's sound is bold, honest, and emotionally raw. Their latest EP David St. leans heavier into alt-rock while holding onto rootsy lyrical depth. Having shared the stage with The Wallflowers, Whiskey Myers, and The Record Company, the band delivers a sound that's both familiar and fresh.

Don’t Tell John

Sacramento’s Don’t Tell John plays original indie rock and blues inspired songs plus the occasional cover. The feature a heavy groove with guitar riffs all as a platform to showcase the powerful vocals of lead singer Veronica Larkin. The energy is hard and loud with a sultry, groove oriented backbone.

Purusa

Purusa is an alternative rock band, originally formed in Portland in 1999 by lead singer Kris Kirkman and guitarist Zach Hinkelman.  The band has built their reputation over the years touring throughout the West Coast with their blend of blues rock guitar and soul drenched vocals.  They released top selling local albums and generated some modest college radio airplay nationally, leading them to share the stage with many national acts such as Joe Bonamassa, Sponge, Glen Phillips, Geoff Tate, Indigenous, Dada, Chris Whitley, OURS and more.

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The Sadies have played all over the world where, for the last 30 years, they have astonished audiences with their earthy arsenal of roots music, country, spaghetti western, surf, garage rock, psychedelia, and the slippery beast known as alt rock, all with uncanny precision and passion.

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Increasingly difficult to define, the sonic profile of Capstan is enigmatic.  Formed in Orlando, FL in 2012, Capstan has expanded their musical boundaries in every direction with each release.  While those who are only vaguely familiar with Capstan’s music might swiftly sum them up as simply an emo or pop-punk band, a detailed examination of their discography would reveal a vast array of genre bending songs and albums, with widely varying instrumentation and textures.  Whether your favorite music is folk-rock or deathcore, prog-rock or post-hardcore, there are surely moments in Capstan’s musical catalogue that will connect with and appeal to you. 

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La banda es dueña de un inconfundible sonido que fusiona elementos de la
música disco, acid jazz, funk y ritmos latinos, con los que conquistaron el
corazón del público no sólo en su natal Venezuela, sino en diferentes rincones
del mundo.

Temas como "Mentiras”, “La Que Me Gusta", "Espérame" son coreados por
miles de gargantas en diferentes rincones del mundo. Su despegue
internacional ocurrió en 1996, cuando fueron descubiertos por David Byrne
quien los reclutó para grabar bajo su sello discográfico Luaka Bop. Tiempo
después, salió al mercado el disco “New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera”
(1998).

A lo largo de 31 años de carrera, Los Amigos Invisibles han lanzado 10 discos
de estudio y 2 en vivo. Ganadores de Grammy Latino, múltiples nominaciones
en las que se incluyen el Grammy Americano, más de 60 países visitados, son
sólo algunos de los datos más importantes de una banda cuya carrera no tiene
freno, ni fronteras.

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VIP MILLIONAIRE$ MEET & GREET

Bundle includes:

• 1 Ticket into show

• Meet & Greet BEFORE SHOW

• VIP Goodie Bag

• Personal Polaroid with MILLIONAIRE$

• Signing of items 

Subatomic Sound System + Screechy Dan will stage a multimedia live performance of the 1976 dub masterpiece by their former band leader and mentor, Jamaican reggae inventor Lee "Scratch" Perry to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album release. The show will incorporate never before heard audio and video of Scratch.  In 2016, Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic did a 40th anniversary tour complete with a giant custom built replica of the gorilla from the original album cover that was crowdfunded by fans. The success of the sold out tour led to the release of the "Super Ape Returns to Conquer"album based on the reimagined live versions of the songs. On the new recording, which turned out to be Scratch's highest charting ever Billboard release, Brooklyn via Trenchtown. Singjay legend Screechy Dan voiced many of the classic vocals from the original album while Scratch added all new vocals which will be heard and dubbed in this performance.

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Opal in Sky is a modern metal band fronted by twin brothers Dylon and Tyson, combining powerful riffs with uplifting, introspective lyrics to create a sound that’s both heavy and hopeful. These brothers are on a mission to write music that inspires, motivates, and encourages those who may be feeling lost.

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UK Metal Legends ONSLAUGHT are hitting North American soil for the first time in well over a decade performing their "The Force From Hell" set. It's the perfect amalgamation of their 2 seminal albums The Force and Power From Hell and they've brought back classic era vocalist Sy Keeler for this very special tour. Despite being based in Los Angeles, cult metal heroes WARLORD have never played North America over their 40-year career span and are co headlining this tour, playing their seminal album, Deliver Us in its entirety plus more classic era material. The two bands embark on this tour de force after a special set at Hell's Heroes in Houston TX. They will be joined by New Skeletal Faces as the opening act. Get your tickets now! 

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Worry Club is a Chicago-based band started by Chase Walsh (singer/songwriter) in January 2020. In just under four years, the band has amassed over 12 million streams. Worry Club has built an engaged and devoted fan base through a discography of singles that quickly found their audience online during the pandemic and the collective's staunch advocacy for mental health awareness. In 2023 they released their third EP, "All Frogs Go to Heaven", which received a long list of editorial playlists across DSPS, and coverage from notable press outlets. 2024 has started off with their most recent release, "I Suck" which is about falling behind in relationships and admitting that you suck. It's about taking the easy way out and admitting you suck instead of taking real accountability. They have attracted high interest from multiple record labels, and have plans to release music and tour as much as possible.

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Deface the Currency, the new second collaborative album from the Messthetics and
James Brandon Lewis, grew out of a simple intuition. The group — with saxophonist
Lewis joining the core Messthetics lineup of Brendan Canty on drums, Joe Lally on bass
and Anthony Pirog on guitar — was on tour in the summer of 2025 when Canty knew it
was time to go back into the studio.

This configuration of the band had debuted on record the year prior, releasing an
acclaimed self-titled album via Impulse!, the legendary jazz label. But as the quartet
logged serious time on the road, the drummer felt their chemistry evolving, so he called
up engineer Don Godwin and booked a couple of days at Tonal Park in Takoma Park,
Maryland, where The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis was recorded.

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Started by four friends from Lima with a shared passion for traditional Afro-Peruvian music and global DJ culture, Novalima stands in the common ground bridging past and future, uniting tradition and innovation.

From their humble start, file-sharing musical ideas and producing their first album in separate countries at the dawn of the internet, Novalima is now a live musical force revered worldwide for breaking boundaries and uniting seemingly irreconcilable genres, communities, and generations. They have created an inspiring movement and revolutionized the music scene in their native Peru by bridging a longstanding divide between the mainstream and the minority Afro-Peruvian community, who have struggled against discrimination and cultural dissolution for generations.

During their career, Novalima has garnered worldwide critical acclaim from mainstream (NPR, UK Guardian, Wall Street Journal, La Presse, Metro, Billboard) and underground media (Giant Step, Remezcla, Sounds & Colors, Nat Geo) alike, delivered legendary performances around the world at festivals such as Roskilde, WOMAD, Pirineos Sur, NYC Central Park, Montreal Jazz Festival and Chicago’s Millennium Park, earned a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album, and were featured in cult filmmaker Robert Rodriguez’s hit Mexploitation movie Machete.

While their sound is futuristic and cutting-edge, the roots of Novalima’s music reach back hundreds of years. In a far-too familiar tale, African slaves were brought to Peru as early as the 1500s until the middle of the 19th Century, establishing an outpost of the African-Diaspora on the Pacific coast of South America. Over the years, the soul and rhythms of Africa melded with the melodies and instruments of Europe and the Andes. The result is rich musical repertoire that existed for generations on the periphery of Peruvian popular culture.

The founders of Novalima, Ramon Perez-Prieto, Grimaldo Del Solar, Rafael Morales, and Carlos Li Carrillo, became friends and started playing together in Lima during their high school years, playing a pivotal part in the 80s underground hardcore punk, and the 90s psychedelic/acid-rock scenes. As children of artists and intellectuals, Ramon, Grimaldo, Rafael and Carlos were well educated and well traveled, and while they listened to traditional Peruvian folk music regularly in family reunions and in the street, they relentlessly explored new sounds in Rock, Dub Reggae, Latin and Electronic Music, which became grounds for their own discovery.

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MASTER BOOT RECORD (aka MBR) is a project founded in 2016 by producer Vittorio D’amore mixing together heavy metal and synthesized electronic music. 

Starting in 2016 releasing albums under the indie label Data Airlines has moved in 2018 to synthwave iconic label Blood Music to expand its audience to the electronic community. In 2019 MASTER BOOT RECORD settled with Metal Blade Records, the historic metal label based in Los Angeles to release the latest two albums “Floppy Disk Overdrive (2020)” and “Personal Computer(2022)” helping the project to gain increased popularity worldwide. MBR has also produced the video game “VirtuaVerse” as well as its original soundtrack. VirtuaVerse was released in 2020 on all gaming platforms as well as Nintendo Switch, Xbox and Playstation. 

The project as a live band increased their live activity in 2022 including live performing artists such as the guitar virtuoso and Ibanez endorser Edoardo Taddei at lead guitars and technical death metal drummer Giulio Galati. 

MBR released 14 albums so far with multiple record labels and has been one of the most successful musicians on US digital distribution platform Bandcamp charting #1 in general charts several times. Because of that Bandcamp often featured the albums and made interviews directly with the artist.

The rapid growth of the project sparked an intense live activity with several tours in Europe and North American as well as participating to festivals such as Super Mag Fest (USA), Resurrection Fest (Spain), Brutal Assault (Czech Republic), Wacken Open Air (Germany), Baroeg Open Air (Netherlands), Resistanz Festival (UK), SWR Fest (Portugal), Frantic Fest (Italy) 

In 2024–2025, MASTER BOOT RECORD expanded globally with the release of “Hardwarez” (Metal Blade Records, October 2024), followed by an extensive world tour across North America, Canada, the UK, and Europe between September and November 2024, totaling more than 40 shows. 

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